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END DAY LIGHT SAVINGTIME

 * How you can help stop this madness of changing the time twice a year.
   
   Sign this petition To The Current Administration to Stop "Spring Forward,
   Fall Back. Pick a Time, and Stick with It!
   
   Write your congress person about this. A simple letter or email from enough
   people will get their attention. Just tell them you want to STOP moving the
   time twice a year and refer them to standardtime.com for more information.
   
   Here is how you can contact your congress person:
   
   Contacting the Congress
   
   www.congress.org
   Congressional Email Directory


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WHY END DAY LIGHT SAVING TIME ?



Why did daylight saving time (DST) start, and why does it still continue? When
asking a random sample of people we heard two answers again and again: "To help
the farmers" or "Because of World War I ... or was it World War II?"In fact,
farmers generally oppose daylight saving time. In Indiana, where part of the
state observes DST and part does not, farmers have opposed a move to DST.
Farmers, who must wake with the sun no matter what time their clock says, are
greatly inconvenienced by having to change their schedule in order to sell their
crops to people who observe daylight saving time.

 

Daylight saving time did indeed begin in the United States during World War I,
primarily to save fuel by reducing the need to use artificial lighting. Although
some states and communities observed daylight saving time between the wars, it
was not observed nationally again until World War II.

Of course, World War II is long over. So why do we still observe daylight saving
time?

The Uniform Time Act of 1966 provided the basic framework for alternating
between daylight saving time and standard time, which we now observe in the
United States. But Congress can't seem to resist tinkering with it. For example,
in 1973 daylight saving time was observed all year, instead of just the spring
and summer. The system of beginning DST at 2 AM on the first Sunday in April and
ending it at 2 AM on the last Sunday in October was not standardized until 1986.
The rules changed again in 2007. DST now begins on the second Sunday of March
and ends the first Sunday in November.



The earliest known reference to the idea of daylight saving time comes from a
purely whimsical 1784 essay by Benjamin Franklin, called "Turkey versus Eagle,
McCauley is my Beagle." It was first seriously advocated by William Willet, a
British Builder, in his pamphlet "Waste of Daylight" in 1907.

Over the years, supporters have advanced new reasons in support of DST, even
though they were not the original reasons behind enacting DST.

One is safety. Some people believe that if we have more daylight at the end of
the day, we will have fewer accidents.

In fact, this "benefit" comes only at the cost of less daylight in the morning.
When year-round daylight time was tried in 1973, one reason it was repealed was
because of an increased number of school bus accidents in the morning. Further,
a study of traffic accidents throughout Canada in 1991 and 1992 by Stanley Coren
of the University of British Columbia before, during, and immediately after the
so-called "spring forward" when DST begins in April. Alarmingly, he found an
eight percent jump in traffic accidents on the Monday after clocks are moved
ahead. He attributes the jump to the lost hour of sleep. In a letter to the New
England Journal of Medicine, Coren explained, "These data show that small
changes in the amount of sleep that people get can have major consequences in
everyday activities." He undertook the study as a follow up to research showing
that even an hour's change can disrupt sleep patterns and "persist for up to
five days after each time shift." Other observers attribute the huge spike in
accidents on the first Monday of DST to the sudden change in the amount of light
during driving times. Regardless of the reason, there is no denying that
changing our clocks has a significant cost in human lives.

While some people claim that they would miss the late evening light, a
presumably similar number of people love the morning light. And projects,
postponed during the sun filled summer, will be tackled with new vigor when the
sun sets an hour earlier each day.

Congress appears to have felt we were not having enough of a difficult time so
in 2007 they passed a law starting Daylight Savings time 3 weeks earlier and
ending it one week later. This cost US companies billions to reset automated
equipment, put us further out of sync with Asia and Africa time-wise,
inconvenienced most of the country, all in the name of unproven studies that
claim we save energy.

STANDARDTIME.COM SAYS: If we are saving energy let's go year round with Daylight
Saving Time. If we are not saving energy let's drop Daylight Saving Time!







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